Tarepanda and friends are again to place smiles on the faces of outdated followers and make new ones too.
There are plenty of parallels between the character items scene and common human present enterprise. Not everyone seems to be fortunate sufficient to go on to be icons of the trade like Hey Kitty, whose fame continues to rise and rise even a long time after their debut. Some characters as an alternative take pleasure in a short interval of intense recognition, however then get pushed apart by stylish newcomers who turn into the most recent fad.
However simply because they’ve been out of the highlight for some time doesn’t imply these character are forgotten by their followers, or that they will’t appeal to new younger audiences who may be seeing them for the primary time. So this fall a quartet of characters who had been main stars within the character merch increase of the late ‘90s and early 2000s are hitting the comeback path.
All of them come from character items firm San-X, with the primary being Tarepanda, who debuted in 1995. Tarepanda’s title comes from tareru, that means “to droop,” and the tuckered-out/laid-back panda who flops from place to position has by no means moved quicker than 2.75 meters (9 ft) an hour, even to get a few of its beloved suama rice cake sweets.
Subsequent is Kogepan, or “Burnt Bread,” a little bit of singed baked good scraps with an inferiority advanced born of being not as match for consumption as extra skillfully made slices and debuted in 1999.
On the opposite finish of the persona spectrum is Afro Ken (ken being one of many methods to say “canine” in Japanese), who first appeared in 2001 and whose disposition is at all times as shiny as his hair, and who feels drawn to afro-shaped objects.
And final, Nyan Nyan Nyanko (that means “Meow Meow Kitty”), or simply Nyanko for brief, a cat who’s been imitating meals and different on a regular basis gadgets since 1999.
San-X is releasing new gadgets for all 4 characters this fall, with compact strap plushies (1,760 yen [US$12.60]) and bigger stuffed animals (2,200-2,860 yen) in fact a part of the lineup.
▼ The Kogepan plushie comes with its personal bread bag…
▼ …and Afro Ken’s afro is detachable.
In a nod to fashionable merch tendencies, there are additionally acrylic character standees (770 yen)…
…and clear information (660 yen for a set of two patterns for every character).
For on-the-go followers, there’s a group of handbag-style pouches (1,980 yen)…
…and it wouldn’t be a correct character merch venture with out stickers and stationery, wouldn’t it?
▼ Memo pads with 4 paper patterns every (385 yen)
▼ Pens (1,100 yen)
▼ Tile sticker units (440 yen)
The entire lineup is schedule to go on sale in early October, and to be provided n each bodily shops and thru the San-X on-line store.
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